http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/drawing-line-no-text-spam/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/drawing-line-no-text-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3304 Kent Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3580#comment-3304 Martin, I agree. Fax spam also drives me crazy, as it costs me paper and ink. I can't believe Congress hasn't legislated (in an effective way) against some of this crap the way it did with telemarketers.Mike, I may ultimately kill my text plan, since I use (and really like) BeeJive IM on my phone. It is a very elegant front end, but used AIM, Yahoo Messenger, etc. as the actual text client. Martin, I agree. Fax spam also drives me crazy, as it costs me paper and ink. I can’t believe Congress hasn’t legislated (in an effective way) against some of this crap the way it did with telemarketers.Mike, I may ultimately kill my text plan, since I use (and really like) BeeJive IM on my phone. It is a very elegant front end, but used AIM, Yahoo Messenger, etc. as the actual text client.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/drawing-line-no-text-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3305 Mike Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:12:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3580#comment-3305 I told my cell provider to deactivate my texting capability since neither one of us ever text and the only text messages I ever got were spam or from my boss.Neither of which I was willing to pay for.It will be interesting to see if text messaging dies as more and more people can access Twitter/Facebook, etc. and even real email/chat clients over their phone. I told my cell provider to deactivate my texting capability since neither one of us ever text and the only text messages I ever got were spam or from my boss.Neither of which I was willing to pay for.It will be interesting to see if text messaging dies as more and more people can access Twitter/Facebook, etc. and even real email/chat clients over their phone.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2009/01/drawing-line-no-text-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-3306 Martin Gordon Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:04:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3580#comment-3306 SMS spam is especially worse than email/fax spam because we (Americans, at least) pay for incoming texts as well as outgoing texts. The cell networks have little incentive to stop spam if they're making 20 cents for every SMS that goes out. SMS spam is especially worse than email/fax spam because we (Americans, at least) pay for incoming texts as well as outgoing texts. The cell networks have little incentive to stop spam if they’re making 20 cents for every SMS that goes out.

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